American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

The Conscience of Humanity

In a New York Times article reported by William Glaberson, entitled “Judge Orders Five Detainees Freed From Guantanamo,” Mr. Glaberson states that:
Ruling from the bench, Judge Richard J. Leon of Federal District Court in Washington said that the information gathered on the men had been sufficient to hold them for intelligence purposes, but was not [...]

Technology unfulfilled: the lack of progress

I’m listening to a fascinating speaker right now. He’s considering how the serious and fantastical expectations of technological progress have been substantially unfulfilled. We enjoyed enormous progress through the 60s and seem to have stalled, replacing real productivity gains with theoretical improvements. He raises some fascinating points:
Biotech, Genomics, Alternative Energy, Artificial Intelligence? Progress has been [...]

Dirty politics!

So anyone who cares about such things may have noticed that I’ve been absent these last couple months…no…?  No one noticed?  Ok, whatever.
So I decided, with the encouragement of my fellow AM writers, to talk about something other than politics, and, failing that, I decided to take a little break.  I did, however, sit back, [...]

A new design for AmericanMadness

I got sick of looking at the same boring Kubrik wordpress theme, so I’ve installed a new theme, ClockWorkSimple by the mysterious ClockWorkBlogger. Thank you, whoever the heck you are).
The design is very simple, but it’s a lot cleaner/neater than what we had before. I’m tweaking it a bit here and there and hopefully [...]

The Fat Man Skips Lunch

It seems that Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein has responded to the financial crisis by sacrificing his own bonus as a gesture of solidarity to the millions of taxpayers who bailed out his employer.
Goldman Sachs, which received a $10 billion from through the troubled relief asset program this quarter, hit a public relations quagmire [...]

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